About This Event

The Millers’ Summit 2025: Advancing Uganda’s Milling Industry

Uniting Stakeholders for Quality, Innovation, and Market Growth

6,000+ people’s In Person Meet-up

Connect with Industry Leaders

The Grain Millers Summit 2025, organized by the Grain Council of Uganda (TGCU), brought together key players from Uganda’s milling sector to confront industry-wide challenges, promote investment, and align efforts toward modernizing grain processing.

With Uganda’s grain industry valued in the trillions of shillings, employing a large workforce and contributing significantly to national taxation revenues, the summit addressed persistent issues like high capital costs, high power tariffs, outdated milling technology, poor storage practices, limited cross-border trade, and fragmented regulatory frameworks.

Government bodies—including the Ministries of Agriculture, Trade, Finance, and Health—joined forces with private stakeholders such as banks, development partners like AGRA, packaging suppliers, and international equipment manufacturers to explore practical solutions.

The event was graced by Hon. Evelyn Anite, Minister of Finance for Investment and Privatization, who pledged that millers would benefit from the favorable $0.05 per kilowatt-hour electricity rate (about UGX 185) extended to other manufacturers.

Notable presentations were made by AGRA Uganda, Uganda National Bureau of Standards, Centenary Bank, Stanbic Bank, China Huangpai Food Machines, and others, all focused on catalyzing sector growth, with the keynote address delivered by Mr. Bwambale Bernard, Head of Program at CONSENT Uganda.

 He provided a comprehensive overview of critical food safety gaps along Uganda’s grain value chain, highlighting unsafe grain handling practices such as drying grains on bare ground, tarmac roads, and rusted iron sheets, the use of chemicals like glyphosate by during drying among others, which pose health risks to consumers, citing aflatoxin contamination which is linked to liver cancer, stunted growth in children, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. The summit marked a critical step toward uniting stakeholders under a shared vision for improved standards, increased productivity, and a competitive grain milling industry in Uganda